Fayssal al- Mikdad: Terrorist Events Wouldn’t Have Happened Had They Not Been Funded and Supported by Some States.

Deputy Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Dr. Fayssal al- Mikdad, stressed on Wednesday that the ongoing events in Syria would not have happened had it not been for the interference of some states through financing, hosting and arming the armed terrorist groups and for the misleading media campaigns which falsified facts and gave justifications for terrorism.

In a statement delivered during the meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) foreign ministers held in Tehran, Mikdad denounced the support provided by the US, the Western circles and some regional countries to the armed terrorist groups as aimed at destroying the infrastructure of Syria and killing innocent citizens who opposed terrorism and the Terrorists’ practices.

He cited particularly the support provided by Turkey to al-Qaeda and other extremist salafist organizations to kill innocents in Syria, which was manifested through opening the Turkish airports and borders for terrorists to infiltrate into Syria and carry out plots that are aimed at diverting attention from the main conflict in the region which is the Arab-Israeli conflict.

The Deputy Foreign and Expatriates Minister stressed that Syria is defending itself in the face of the foreign conspiracy and its tools moved by the US and Europe in cooperation with some regional states.

He Highlighted the reforms which were commenced by President Bashar al-Assad through a wide package of laws and decrees which have expanded the freedom of press and allowed political and party pluralism and conducting local administration elections, underscoring the issuance of a new constitution to enforce democratic freedoms, human rights and new parliamentary elections.

Mikdad expressed hope that the countries which are talking in the logic of deception to reconsider their stances through halting funding terrorism and backing and hosting terrorists, reiterating Syria’s support for the six-point plan of the former UN envoy Kofi Annan and its implementation, made evident in the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s recently addressed letter to the chairman of the Security Council and the reports sent by the UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) to the UN.

He stressed that it is the armed terrorist groups who have not abided by Annan’s plan nor by the UNSMIS and continued killing and mutilating the innocents and sabotaging the economic and social achievements of the Syrian people.

Mikdad reaffirmed that the solution to the current crisis in Syria cannot be through foreign intervention and supporting terrorism but through broad national dialogue with the Syrians’ participation and under a Syrian leadership so as for the Syrians to determine their future without any foreign interference.

He called for terminating the economic sanctions imposed on Syria by the US, Europe and a number of regional countries as they are targeted against the innocent Syrian citizens.

The Syrian Deputy Foreign and Expatriates Minister spoke of the role of the NAM which has defended its member countries for consolidating security and spreading justice in the world and maintaining the political and cultural independence of peoples.

He underscored the necessity of solving the Palestinian cause and the withdrawal of the Israeli occupation forces from the occupied Syrian Golan and guaranteeing the achievement of just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East.

Mikdad highlighted the need for achieving democracy in the international relations that is based on wide participation of the world’s peoples and able to keep the Western hegemony away from the international policy though having a multi-polar world that is more capable of respecting the peoples’ rights and their intellectual and cultural values.

He concluded his statement by underlining how the US and its allies in Europe feel so much at ease when they use the word of democracy as a pretext for interfering in the countries’ internal affairs while at the same time they so much hate this very same word and cannot stand hearing it when it comes to the importance of achieving democracy in the international relations and refuse even to discuss it.

Mikdad met a number of foreign ministers participating at the NAM summit and discussed with them the situation in Syria and the region.

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